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From: Alan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Jesus wept … oh, it's bad plumbing.
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Immediately hailed as a miracle, hundreds of Catholic devotees and other curious residents flocked to the shrine in a nondescript Mumbai suburb to watch the hypnotic drip. Some even drank the droplets. Edamaruku was challenged to investigate and so he went to the site with an engineer friend and traced the source of the drip backwards. Moisture on the wall the statue was mounted on seemed to come from an overflowing drain, which was in turn fed by a pipe that issued from a nearby toilet. The "miracle" was simply bad plumbing, he said. It was then that the situation turned ugly. He presented his case in a febrile live television debate with representatives of Catholic lobby groups, while outside the studio a threatening crowd bearing sticks had gathered. He claims they were hired thugs. For some Catholics the veracity of the miracle is no longer the point. Edamaruku, they say, insulted the Catholic church, by alleging the church manufactured the miracle to make money, by claiming the church was anti-science and even casting doubt over the miracle that ensured Mother Theresa's sainthood. |
21867
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Jesus wept … oh, it's bad plumbing.
| so your conjecture is that jesus did not cause the leak? |
21872
From: Akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Jesus wept … oh, it's bad plumbing.
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nah, sounds exactly like something Jesus would do - direct a stream of water possibly polluted with human waste directly into the mouths of his believers. |
21873
From: Cinnamon in Oregon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Jesus wept … oh, it's bad plumbing.
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LOL! Are you kidding? I don't see anywhere in the Bible that supports idolatry or graven images. Anyone drinking water from a statue thinking it to be sacred wound up drinking toilet water due to their own misguidedness. |
21876
From: Akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Jesus wept … oh, it's bad plumbing.
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But Jesus would be aware that there are many ignorants who would behave exactly as they did and in good faith, so he sorta set them up it seems. Sounds a little passive aggressive to me. |
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21887
From: Cinnamon in Oregon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Jesus wept … oh, it's bad plumbing.
| Well, God definitely gave us our freedom - and LOL! that includes freedom to do "stupid". |
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